Everything You Need To Know About Toning!

Nothing tones a muscle, nothing defines a muscle and nothing makes a muscle ripped, cut, slim,  lean or sculpted.  For all of that to make sense, you first need a definition of what these words truly mean. Since they all tend to be used interchangeably and really mean the exact same thing, “tone” (and “toning“) will be used to refer to this entire group of words.

What Is Tone?

Tone: To have some amount of muscle on your body AND then have a low enough body fat percentage so that this muscle can actually be seen. The more muscle you have and the less fat you have covering it, the more “toned” and “defined” and “ripped” and “cut” you will appear to be. The more fat covering your muscle, the less visible it will be and the less “toned” you will appear.

What this means is, whenever anyone says that they want to “tone up,” they’re actually saying that they want to be able to see their muscle better than they currently do.

And to accomplish that, it will always be a matter of doing one of the following:

• Losing the fat that is covering your muscles.
• Building some more muscle.
• A combination of both.

More often than not, too much fat covering your muscle is the #1 reason a person isn’t as toned as they would like to be, although just not having enough muscle in the first place (or a little bit of both) is possible as well. So, that’s what “tone” actually is, and you’re now WAY ahead of the game for knowing it. Now to understand to how to get rid of it is the challenge. Most people think tone is this magical thing that happens some magical way using only magical methods and techniques. However, it’s not that at all.

Things That Will NOT Make Your Body Toned

• Higher reps WILL NOT make you toned.
• Lighter weight WILL NOT make you toned.
• Machines WILL NOT make you toned.
• Supposed “toning exercises” WILL NOT make you toned.
• Magical machines/products/supplements that claim to make you toned (usually for “3 easy payments of $19.95”) WILL DEFINITELY NOT make you toned.

None of these myths directly target the fat covering the muscle you are training. NOTHING directly targets the fat covering the muscle you are training. The idea that you can burn fat from one specific area of your body by doing exercises that target that area is known as spot reduction...SPOT REDUCTION IS A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION AND CAN NOT ACTUALLY HAPPEN NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO.

Why? Because the human body is only capable of losing fat from the entire body as a whole. Exactly where on your body you lose fat from first, second, third, etc. is predetermined by your genetics whether you like it or not.

No routine or exercise, no type of routine or exercise, no form of routine or exercise, and no amount of reps, sets, or anything else can change that and actually allow you to burn fat from the exact spot you want to burn it from.

It sucks, but it’s true! Now let’s answer the big question that’s on your mind right now…

So, How Do I Actually Get Toned?

If you’ve made it this far, then you’re probably wondering if being tone” is even possible. Is muscle tone just a myth? Is there no way to actually tone up your body? Will you never be able to get the results you want?

Relax… There is good news. Tone is definitely real and definitely possible.

And guess what else? All it takes is just 2 simple things:

1. Build some amount of muscle.
2. Lose enough fat so that the muscle you have (or will build) can actually be seen rather than covered by a layer (or many layers) of fat.

Blammmm!!!!

All you need to do is use our intelligently designed daily practice routines that will allow you to build muscle. Then, creating a diet plan, cardio activity, or a combination of both… lose some fat from your body as a whole. It will eventually come off from the exact spots you want it to and therefore allow you to appear “toned” in those spots. And that’s it.

The fact is, if you don’t appear as “toned” as you want to appear, then you either need to build some more muscle (a function of weight training), lose some more fat (a function of diet and/or cardio), or do a combination of both. Case closed.

And Here’s Why Most People Never Get Toned

The problem is, most people believe the hyped myths mentioned earlier, and instead of doing what they need to be doing (losing fat, building muscle, or both), they’re wasting time doing a bunch of useless money scaming themes for fat burning and weigth loss that isn’t actually helping them get toned (or doing much of anything else, really).

Not only is “light weight for high reps” and other such nonsense NOT directly targeting the fat covering your muscles, it’s also NOT providing the type of training stimulus needed to actually build muscle in the first place. So, neither of the things you truly need to be doing to tone up (losing fat, building muscle) are actually happening in this scenario. And, while many guys might find themselves in this scenario, the majority of women who weight train are nearly always in this scenario.

It’s due to a combination of A) “toning up” usually being the workout goal of most females, and B) the fear of getting too “big and bulky” like a guy (another myth) scaring them away from doing the stuff they should be doing. So, both men and women are just wasting time and accomplishing NONE of the things that need to be accomplished in order for a person to truly get toned.

Don’t Be That Person!

So, if you truly want to get toned, don’t be like these people. If you already are, then just stop now and fix it. How? Once again…

Muscle + less fat = tone. That’s all it is.